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Space Leadership Comes Before Selfies

Lead Change Blog

I know there are plenty of experts out there ( Cal Newport, for example ) who argue that being “passionate” about your career choice isn’t necessary to perform well, but I tend to disagree. Over the course of his career, he made some decisions about academics and career moves that placed him, ultimately, in exactly the right position.

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What Michael Buble Taught Me About Leadership In 3 Minutes

Joseph Lalonde

Image by Eva Rinaldi. Towards the end of the video, Buble even talks about Hollyman taking over his career in a couple of years. T here’s a video circulating around the internet from a Michael Buble concert. During the concert, a woman approached the stage to talk to Michael Buble.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Among those crown jewel TV moments were: Our Town , starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. Requiem for a Heavyweight , the premiere of “Playhouse 90.” It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn.

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

One day, Alvin approaches Manuel and tells him he wants to make a major career shift. Why it works: Delivered in a calm and candid tone, this sentence can save a career or life-altering moment from becoming a decimating event with an alienating outcome by: Giving the other person a moment to brace themselves. Manuel says nothing.

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

In fact, several mentioned — sometimes years later — that the “one-on-one” meetings with him (one-on-one is a personal feedback technique for leadership development used at Intel and described in High Output Management ) had enormous positive impact on their careers. Once, Eva’s mother came too.

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4 Analytics Concepts Every Manager Should Understand

Harvard Business Review

For example, I need to understand whether and why articles on having a mid-career crisis outperformed ones on receiving feedback or why pieces with particular headlines get more traffic than others. I’m a writer and editor, so I deal with words, not numbers. Data analytics is ultimately about making good decisions.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

The Enhanced Virtual Assistant, or Eva, enables members to do 200 transactions by just talking, including transferring money and paying bills. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. We’re trying to use a virtual agent to intervene to be more productive for them.” But this is a 1.0